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A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which means each line has 10 syllables with 5 stressed and 5 unstressed. Sonnets typically follow a strict rhyme scheme and often have regular breaks, like the one in this case, after the eighth line. The first eight lines of both poems, known as the […]

“When I first explored the island with Jack and Ralph I imagined that all of us could survive and live together. The island was a beautiful place, “roughly boat-shaped”, but the plane had already marked the start of its destruction, “there was a gash visible in the trees”. We could feel a sense of “domination” […]

The tall concrete walls of the dark cutting prevented any light from penetrating. The dark and ghostly atmosphere is set by the constant darkness surrounding the signalman’s box located outside a damp tunnel where water trickles down its sides. In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, Piggy is introduced as a short, overweight boy who […]

Throughout Lord of the Flies, the characters Piggy, Jack, Roger, and Ralph display distinct traits and their relationships with each other become more intricate as the story develops. In this essay, I will explore the development of Piggy and Ralph’s relationship as well as that of Jack and Roger’s. I will also provide my opinion […]

In this essay I will be examining a selection of two 20th century poems, which are “Unholy Marriage written by David Holbrook and Street Accident by Richard Church”. I will be comparing and contrasting the two 20th century poems. I will closely examine and analyse in details the subject matter, the structure and the language […]

This poem sounds as if an old man wrote it, however the poet was merely 23 years old when this poem was published. The entire poem is very poignant and tragic in tone and the main reason why I get the impression of an old man as the narrator is because the poet seems to […]

The relationships that the poems I have studied are about parents’. I understand that the two poems that I have studied have extremely different views on their parents. The two poems that I have looked at are “Boy driving his father to confession. ” by Seamus Heaney and “A praise song for my mother. ” […]

In To His Coy Mistress and A Woman to Her Lover, different loves are portrayed and the way the poets have shown the attitudes towards love are form, structure, different rhyme schemes, altering tones of voice and punctuation. There are two main types of love in To His Coy Mistress; there is a desire for […]

In this essay I am going to be comparing and contrasting the style of which William King and Andrew Marvel present the relationships between the gentlemen and mistresses in the poems ‘The Beggar Woman’ and ‘To His Coy Mistress’ In both poems, the gentlemen are trying to persuade the mistresses to have sex with them; […]

“Warning” written by Jenny Joseph and “Old Man, Old Man” by U., both contain cautionary themes. Although they both depict old age, Fanthorpe and Jenny Joseph differ in their portrayal of it. Warning is a defiant piece that cautions against the perils of growing old, while Old Man Old Man illuminates the evolving dynamics between […]

This essay aims to compare and contrast the aforementioned writings, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding in 1954 and The Black Cottage written in 1859. Despite certain similarities, these two pieces also have noticeable differences. Throughout this essay, we will provide a brief introduction to both works and discuss their similarities and differences. This […]

In this essay, I will study how the distortion of virtuousness is portrayed in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and William Golding’s ‘Lord of the flies’. I am going to be concentrating on the characters of Jack and the ‘creation’ in the particular novels. My focus will follow their deterioration from innocuous characters with no past of […]

An important theme in William Golding’s novel, ‘Lord of the Flies’ is that the fear, especially the fear of the unknown, is pervasive in mankind in such a way that even strong societies are too weak to protect their own people from the grasping power of it. In his novel, Golding illustrates this sense of […]

In this essay I aim to analyse the following aspects of “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding: character relationships, mainly Jack and Ralph’s relationship, the island and its part in the novel, theme and the way Golding chooses to present the island. The opening chapter of “Lord of the Flies” is important because it […]

“My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover,” set in different time periods, depict the themes of madness and love through various forms of obsession and control. The Renaissance era in Ferrara, northern Italy, serves as the backdrop for “My Last Duchess,” while “Porphyria’s Lover” takes place during the Victorian era. Despite the age gap, both poems […]

The main descent to savagery in the novel could be seen in the choir. They begin as boys who accept the discipline of a choir school and acknowledge Jack’s position as head chorister. They become hunters, when Jack claims this role for them. Then, as Jack releases his savage instincts by creating his mask, they […]

a) Compare how the poets make the reader feel sympathy for the speaker in ‘On my first Sonne’ by Ben Jonson and the speaker in one poem by Carol Ann Duffy. The poems ‘On my first Sonne’ by Ben Jonson and ‘Stealing’ by Carol Ann Duffy both make the reader feel sympathy for the speaker. […]

The poem “Lament” written by Gillian Clarke, and “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” by Vachel Lindsay are two very similar poems which both illustrate the problems that affect nature. The poem “Lament” portrays ideas to do with ecological disasters and that of conflict and war. On the other hand, “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” illustrates how modernisation leads to […]

In this essay I will compare two poems from different cultures: “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezekiel and “Nothing’s Changed” by Tatamkhulu Africa. Both poems convey a sense of poverty, but while in “Night of the Scorpion” the neighbors unite and support each other, in “Nothing’s Changed” the community remains divided due to racism. […]

William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ is a novel about good and evil, along with innocence and experience within society. Golding uses the boys’ innocence, and gives them time on the island to gain experience, then shows us how people react and change if they are left fully to their own devices. Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson […]

London was the birthplace of Mary Shelley, on August 30th, 1797. During Shelley’s upbringing, her parents played significant roles in shaping her beliefs as her mother was an advocate for women’s rights, and her father was a respected philosopher and historian. Because of their reputation, their home attracted many notable writers, philosophers, and poets who […]

By reading E.E. Cummings’ poem “In Just”, one can identity several examples of figurative language that Cummings used in his poem to convey themes of childhood. For example, the language that he used is referring to a child’s language such as “mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful”. Cummings used these words to describe simple descriptions of what an […]